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Yeah, the new OP is fine....but I don't think it's as good as the first one.

As to the episode, another nice recovery for Qwenthur. This was actually a pretty dangerous situation. The layers of traps put in place could easily have killed Milinda at some point. The trap location, the wire mesh, the freaking guy with a gun on top of the Object!? Damn, she could have died in a ton of ways this week.

So this time the enemy boss isn't another Object, but rather another "Qwenthur" so to speak.

Although unlike Qwenthur, Sladder uses more elaborate and high risky expensive traps, using both the Super Railgun and the experimental reactor as 'feigns'.

So yes we finally get to talk about using the spare parts of the Objects, rather than the whole Object itself, to kill other Objects. However as noted, not one of them actually succeeded- the only Object kills in this arc were by other Objects. But whether it works or not isn't important, so long as the potential is there. (Also note, the Legend of the Student of the Battlefield begins now...)

Yeah, I think the potential showed would be good enough at any rate. Without some serious assistance there were several ways that Milinda would have been killed off in this episode. Killing the Elite piloting the Object is effective enough at removing that threat for the moment. They would have been in trouble if Honeysuckle had taken his plans a tier further and actually had troops ready at a calculated landing point.

Though the reality is that the only Objects outright destroyed were done so by other Objects. So the status quo is hardly overturned through this situation.

The MDC's trap managed to disable the Baby Magnum, and it all ended with a tense standoff between Quenser and Sladder. In a classic hero-villain comparisons that Kamachi likes so much, Sladder draws a lot of parallels to Quenser. He's an Object designer trying to come up with ways to destroy Objects without one of his own to further his personal goals. Sladder's style is trying to use the different parts that make up an Object separately, reducing a lot the overall cost.

Still, most of the credit should go to the MDC's Object, the Break Carrier or Lisolette, as the heavy damage it caused on the Baby Magnum was the main reason his trap was so succesful.

the thing that actually makes me like the new opening is because of the visual.. it's more dynamic than the previous one

I don't really get this arc though.. but I still enjoy it even if there is no direct confrontation against a real object right now
Using Object parts to fight Object is clearly a feasible idea.. Qwenthur might use it in the future

The end talk is very good I think.. I can't remember the time when four of them could talk casually like friends.. Frolaytia just seems want to keep these two guys for her only those minuses though.. and she could mention that "boob-fondling" without blushing anymore
Seems like she and Milinda have come to a certain agreement about the incident

well, looking forward for the next arc
I really enjoy this more.. nice adaptation from JC Staff

Spoiler for Volume 2 Chapter 3 - Baby Magnum trying to get a shot at the Break Carrier's spare railgun through the buildings:

Several buildings stood between the Baby Magnum and the high power railgun. Even if the princess fired a main cannon there, the obstacles would very likely alter the trajectory of her shots. However, the Break Carrier’s main cannon held enough destructive force to fly in a straight line while ignoring the obstacles.

She could not do it there.

The princess came to that conclusion and then began moving her Object in a sideward slide. She was moving in a large circle with her target in the center. Once she reached the straight highway, there would be no obstacles. If she fired her low-stability plasma cannons or something then, she could finish it off.

And Sladder not shooting Quenser is also easy: he's not a soldier or even a battlefield student like Quenser; he's an Object Designer who likely doesn't have any experience fighting (even normal soldiers, who lack combat experience due to overreliance in Objects at least have training). He got cocky when he managed to knock Quenser to the ground and his shot hit by pure luck.

Several people (guerrillas, terrorists, etc) have already tried to fight Objects with infantry inspired by Quenser and Heivia's initial victories, as Flide mentioned. They didn't really succeeed, so Sladder is trying a different approach.